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100

In what song does Sky proclaim that smoking was his only vice?

Lay All Your Love On Me


100

Donna sung this love song in a bar in Greece. The title means gently, slowly or at a walking pace in Italian. 

Andante, Andante


100

Where does the name ABBA come from?

100 Bonus points if you can name each of the main four band members

ABBA is an acronym of the first letters of the band members' first names. Agnetha, Björn, Benny  and Anni-Frida.

100

The name of the ABBA jukebox musical that aired April 6, 1999 and has since played in over 60 countries.

Mamma Mia!


100

What is the next line:
"There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer"

"gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight"

200

Donna sings this song as she helps Sophie prepare for her wedding.

Slipping Through My Fingers


200

What song did Donna sing while exploring the broken down buildings she would turn into her Taverna?

I Have A Dream


200

What is the name of the cabaret act that ABBA debuted as in 1970?. 

The name was chosen to play on two words with nearly identical pronunciations in Swedish: one meaning “party people,” and one slang for “engaged couples.”

Festfolk

200

This song's origins sprang from Ulvaeus, a keen runner, who would repeat a "tck-a-ch"-style rhythm to pace himself. 

Funnily enough, the working title had been "Billy Boy" and was sung to Bill in Mamma Mia!

Take A Chance


200

What are the first two lines of this song?


"I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay."

300

In the play production, Donna and a purported father reminisce to "Our Last Summer", but in the movie it is sung by Sophie and her three dads on a boat. What is the father's name mentioned in the song?

Harry

"And now you're working in a bank
The family man, a football fan
And your name is Harry,"

300

Bill and Donna sang this song on Bill's boat. The song is a re-written version of ABBA's "Happy Hawaii".


Why Did It Have To Be Me?

300

While Festfolk failed to gain a following in Sweden, the song “People Need Love,” (recorded as Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid), was a modest hit in what year? Many consider this to be the year ABBA was formed.

In 1972.

300

After their 1973 song "Ring Ring" came third in Sweden's Melodifestivalen, this song won ABBA the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and brought worldwide fame (nearly 160 years after the song's titular historical event).


What is Waterloo?


300

In 1977 ABBA performed a mini-musical as part of their concert tour through Europe and Australia titled "The Girl with the Golden Hair". Their mini-musical's last song includes these lyrics:

"I've been so lucky, I am the girl with golden hair."

What is the name of the song?

Thank You for the Music


400

Sophie was named after this individual/being.

Bill's great Aunt Sophia, who lived on the island and who became a mother figure to Donna, in the absence of her actual mother, Ruby.

400

Both movies included various filming locations throughout Greece, but they also included the island of Vis, which belongs to which Adriatic country?

Croatia

400

What was the reason for ABBA's wild costumes?

Thanks to a Swedish tax law regarding costumes, ABBA's stage clothes were outlandishly-designed on purpose. According to the law, as long as the outfits were too impractical for everyday wear and couldn't be worn outside a performance, they were tax-deductible.

400

This song was written in 1979 by Bjorn Ulvaeus in a rush of emotion while he was drunk. Later, when he gave the lyrics to his soon to be ex-wife Agnetha, "a tear or two welled up in her eyes. Because the words really affected her."

Bjorn denies that this song is about his and Agnetha's divorce, but he does admit the heartache of their breakup inspired the song. Despite this, Bjorn has said not to take the lyrics for fact becuase "Neither Agnetha nor I were winners in our divorce."

The Winner Takes it All


400

Which European city does the song "Super Trouper" mention? 

100 bonus points if you can name what a Super Trouper is.

Glasglow.

Including Glasglow in the song has since been revealed by saxophonist Ulf Andersson as a coded love note from Björn Ulvaeus to then-wife Agnetha Faltskog near the time of their divorce.

A Super Trouper was the brand name of a powerful spotlight used in stage productions.

500

Though not included in the play, Sam gives a toast as this song in the movie adaptation.

When All Is Said And Done


500

What song does Sophie sing with the Dynamos at the grand reopening of Hotel Bella Donna?

I've Been Waiting For You


500

In 2016 Andersson announced that the group was reuniting to prepare for a “virtual” tour that would feature holographic avatars (“ABBAtars”). They recorded two new songs—“I Still Have Faith in You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down” -- but the tour was postponed because of Covid. So ABBA returned to the studio to record a new album. What is the name of ABBA's November 2021 album?

Voyage


500

To facilitate a breakthrough in South America, ABBA recorded a Spanish-language version of this song, despite the fact the band had never learned the language. The Swedes sang the song phonetically and their efforts enhanced their popularity in a number of Latin America countries.

What is Chiquitita?


500

ABBA's teacher was trying to explain the laws of this this Mathematical Discipline when they Kissed the Teacher.

Geometry


600

Name at least 4 of the 9 studio albums that ABBA has released.

Fun facts: Agnetha and Bjorn got married 1971 then divorced in 1979. Benny and Friday got married 1978 then divorced in 1981.

Ring Ring (1973)
Waterloo (1974)
ABBA (1975)
Arrival (1976)
The Album (1977)
Voulez-Vous (1979)
Super Trouper (1980)
The Visitors (1981)
Voyage (2021)